Beautiful Peggy: Black-and-white LED array displaying video

[Evil Mad Scientist via MAKE:]

1. [BCJ]

   That is awesome. I just wish I had the skill to make one.

2. [BCJ]

   For those of us who are interested in getting into stuff like this but have never really screwed around with any hardware stuff before, does anyone have any suggestions on a good place to start?

3. [Anonymous]

   Wow, that’s mighty fine.

   Where can I gets me some o’ those there black LEDs?

4. [trialex]

   @BCJ

   Well this is actually a suprising easy, although expensive, project.

   On the hardware side Evil Mad Scientist sell the peggy kits, I think you could get the basic kit + the wite LEDs for about US$200.

   On the software side, Processing is free, and the two “sketches” the programs that run on your PC and on the hardware, are provided for free by Evil Mad Scientist

5. [nixiebunny]

   Funny you should mention this. I’m in the middle of designing a big 48″ TV set using red LED display blocks that I found on ebay a while ago. It’s going to have 128 x 96 pixels, enough to be of PixelVision quality.

   If anyone wants to know how I design the hardware to do such a thing, look at my blog Nixie Bunny in Engineering Land. (It’s a very new blog, so not much there yet.)
   http://www.nixiebunny.com/blog/

6. [ROSSINDETROIT]

   When I was a lad this is what Television looked like.
   Is that Howdy Doody?
   (cough…)

7. [Anonymous]

   The National Museum of Singapore has a huge one installed in the atrium. It takes up an entire wall and displays a live feed from a camera nearby.

   I’m at work now, can’t Google for videos, but I’m sure they exist.

8. [eustace]

   BJC @ #2 – Google Arduino. Get an Arduino. Start making things with your Arduino.